| PECCANDI | Vanitas ____: the futility of sinning (gerund, pecco) |
| VAINNESS | The futility of conceit |
| OCASEY | Which Irish playwright (Sean ___) wrote on Irish themes and the futility of war? (6) |
| DUCATI | Francesco "Pecco" Bagnaia represents the ... Lenovo Team. (6) |
| BAGNAIA | Francesco "Pecco" .... , Italian motorcycle racer. (7) |
| ANGELL | Norman ___, Labour MP noted for his work on the economic futility of war, The Great Illusion, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933 (6) |
| PURPOSELESSNESS | Futility of keeping poor proles in suspense somehow shown at the outset |
| POINTLESSNESS | Futility of a blunt pencil (13) |
| VANITY | Futility of a fictitious fair (6) |
| USELESSNESS | Futility of advice to economise given by head (11) |
| VAINESSE | Futility of Spenser bust in V&A's actual existence |
| STILLLIFE | Jan Jansz. Treck's vanitas of a skull arranged with a black lacquer box, overturned hourglass, scarf, shell and a straw for blowing soap bubbles, among other things; or, a painting of an array of inan |
| COLLIER | Dutch artist noted for his trompe l'oeil and vanitas paintings such as Letter Rack and Still Life with a Volume of Wither's 'Emblemes' (7) |
| DAMIENHIRST | This English assemblagist, painter, and conceptual artist creates deliberately provocative art that addresses vanitas and beauty, death and rebirth, and medicine, technology, and mortality. His platin |
| LEAR | "More sinn'd against than sinning" protagonist of Shakespeare |
| DERRINGDO | Bold action of theologian over restricting sinning |
| INNINGS | Team's time at the wicket, sinning from first to last (7) |
| INNSIGN | Local indication of wicked sinning (3,4) |
| ING | Evidence of a gerund |
| USUSLOQUENDI | Practice of speaking (subst. + gerund) |
